On May 18, 2010, at 9:07 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
It's a Seagate FreeAgent "Master Boot Record" "Windows NT Filesystem" It probably has some kind of backup software that keeps someone from changing the content. I asume that any windows drive is FAT32 because when I move iTunes for people with widows I always have to to the media transfer with a FAT32 device.
It's NOT FAT32 file system, it's NTFS file system. In order to write to an NTFS filesystem with your Mac, you'll need extra software. AFAIK the best software is "Paragon NTFS 8.0", which is commercial software. The open source project called "NTFS-3G" is a linux project that has a native OS X version available for free. The developer decided this open source was too difficult to support gratis, and created a commercial upgrade called "Tuxera" which also has a native OS X port. Because the commercial version is in "competition" with the free version, finding the correct download link for the free version has recently become very hard since there's a conflict-of-interest whereby the developer wants you to buy the "Tuxera" commercial upgrade version rather than using the free "NTFS-3G" ordinary version. There may be one or two other commercial solutions, but the final word is that you'll need to install one of these in order to be able to write to this NTFS HD.
Here's a download link for the latest NTFS-3G that works for 10.4-10.6 (32-bit):
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/catacombae/files/NTFS-3G%20for%20Mac%20OS%20X/2010.1.16/ntfs-3g-2010.1.16-macosx.dmg/download >
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